Hey, I just saw that there were a few more Spotify sections in the statement, it actually amounts to something closer to 2 or even 3 euros man! Whooa, this will cut my waiting for that Mustang with, like, 200 years or so, right? :)

The thing is, Spotify is just a joke so far, a way of making people clean their conscience, as someone already said. They pay out close to nothing and compare it to radio as an excuse, but with Spotify you choose what to listen to, as opposed to radio broadcasts. And you can save the file for offline, which means limitless numbers of listens. This means royalties should rather be compared to that of buying actual discs.

Funny thing. I get 2€ worldwide for all albums on Spotify. All albums, since 1997. In that same statement I get €2,000 for having one lousy song on a few charts in one small lousy country for six months. Make that calculation add up. And then go support public service. :)

Love to you all, fans, enemies, buyers, downloaders, humans. Love to you, we all need it.

Just on a final note, I hope you understand I didn’t intend to blame you guys :)
It’s just that Spotify has been depicted as The Solution out there in media, and fans are tricked into believing they are actually helping when they use it (ok, it IS better than downloading, but only less than €5 per year better), and that’s what really bothers me. It’s like a nation never accepting immigrants, then expecting the Nobel peace prize (or at least a good round of applauds) when they up that to 1 per year. You cannot simply defend things by comparing them to worse alternatives.

And yes, it’s an American car, so what? I will keep listening to Simon & Garfunkel too if you don’t mind. :)